Improvement in checker-men



DZ1390 AU EX 02676 XP! 218r561] J. B. OROSBY. Oheokermen.

N0. 218,860. Patented Aug. 26,1879.

UNITED STATE'S PATENT OFFICE JOSEPH E. CROSBY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHECKER-MEN.

Specitication forming part 0f Letters Patent N0. 218,860, dated August JG, 1879; applicatiou hlcd February 17, 1879.

T0 all wh0m z't may cmwern:

Be it known that I, Jos. E. CROSBY, ot' New York, in the county 0f New York and Statue cf N ew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Checkers; am] I (10 hereby declare the followingto bga a. full, clear, and exact description 0f the invention, such as will enable others skilled in bhe art; to which it pertains t0 nmke and use it reference beiug had 10 the accompauying dmwiugs, which fo1m parb 0f this specifieaiou.

My invention relates t0 an improvement in checkers; and it consists in making oue 01 more circmnfbrential concavities in each checker-1nan, so as to prevent ii; from slipping from the fingers as in is being liftecl, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

The accompanying drawings represent my invention, Figure 1 showing a, top view, aud Figs. 2 and 3 side views of the same.

a rcpresent-s a commou checker, which has a groove, c, 0f a.ny desired size or depth made entirely a10und its edge. The groove extends nearly from.the t0p to be bot;tom 0f the edge; hat; it is wident that instead 0f oue wide groove t.here maybe two 01 more smallerones, as shown in Fig. 2.

Where tshe checkers am made With straight edges, as is usual, theyare cuustantly slipping from ehe fingers, and eibherfullingou tahe tloor 01' causing tr0uble by displacing others. In Order t0 obviute bl1is trouhle euch checker is grooved around its edge, so as t0 enahle thu 'ugers to geb a firm hold 0f it, und thus emable in both 110 be held in an y position o1 t0 Im picked up readil5u Having thus described my invention, 1 claim- As a new article 0t' mam1facture ehe chvuker-mau a, provided with 0nu 01 mme einsamferential concavitiesto premntz the slippiu;; of the checker-mau fr0m thc fingers wln'lu heing lifbed, all as and f01' the purposes Set forth.

In bestimony tl1at I claim Ehe foregoing 1 have hereunto set 1ny band this 11th day 0t' February, 1879.

JOSEPH E. CROSBY. Wituesses LONNE W. WHITE, EDWARD GREEN, J r. 

